{"id":6056,"date":"2026-10-17T21:07:53","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T02:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/17\/clayco-founder-bob-clark-rejects-ai-bubble-fears\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T21:07:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T02:07:56","slug":"clayco-founder-bob-clark-rejects-ai-bubble-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/17\/clayco-founder-bob-clark-rejects-ai-bubble-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"Clayco Founder Bob Clark Rejects AI Bubble Fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Clayco founder Bob Clark sees unprecedented demand for artificial intelligence infrastructure, but opposition in St. Charles and rising investment risks highlight the challenges facing the industry\u2019s expansion. ST. LOUIS, MO \u2013 October 17, 2026 (STL.News) Artificial intelligence is fueling one of the largest infrastructure construction booms in American history, and St. Louis native Bob Clark, the billionaire founder of construction giant Clayco, believes the extraordinary spending on data centers is far from over. Clark, whose company has become a major builder of facilities supporting artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and other advanced technologies, dismisses concerns that the industry is experiencing<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/clayco-founder-bob-clark-rejects-ai-bubble-fears\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clayco founder Bob Clark sees unprecedented demand for artificial intelligence infrastructure, but opposition in St. Charles and rising investment risks highlight the challenges facing the industry\u2019s expansion. ST. LOUIS, MO \u2013 October 17, 2026 (STL.News) Artificial intelligence is fueling one&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6057,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6058,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6056\/revisions\/6058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}